Why You Should Watch: Game of Thrones [SPOILER FREE]

Game of Thrones very quickly became my favourite TV show of all time. I'd never even seen the first episode or knew remotely what it was about until March, when the first episode was screened to me in a lecture on cinematic television. I instantly became hooked and, if you've never seen it before, you will too.

The first episode gives you everything you can expect from the series as a whole: picturesque landscapes, amazing characters, breasts, incest and cliff-hangers. One of those doesn't sound as appealing as the others, but that's part of the show: the shock factor. There are some gruesome elements in GOT, lots of gorey battles and disgusting deaths. I've never been one for gore, but its just excusable in this show...

Wiki Summary for 'Winter is Coming': King Robert Baratheon majestically arrives in Winterfell, the home of his old and trusted friend, Eddard Stark, Warden of the North, with an important offer.

On the eastern continent, the exiled Princess Daenerys Targaryen marries Khal Drogo, a warlord of the Dothraki with tens of thousands of warriors at his command. Her brother, Viserys, callously plans to win Drogo's allegiance with the marriage, so that he may return home to Westeros and reclaim the Iron Throne, which was seized by force from his father by Robert.

In the frozen lands, beyond the Wall, the wildlings are on the move to the alarm of the Night's Watch. But something else is stirring even farther north.

Click on Jon Snow (swooon) to watch the first episode.